GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Joe Buck]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:30:13PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I don't know of a way to tell libtool to not do duplicate compiles.
> You can use -prefer-pic, but at least from looking at the script it
> will still compile twice, albeit with -fPIC both times.
> 
> Incidentally, at least on my system I don't think this will make a
> dramatic difference.  The incredibly slow parts of building libjava
> all seem to have to do with building the .a and .so files, both of
> which tend to cause my system to start swapping.

It seems that this is a binutils issue.  Particularly in the case of .a
files, it is puzzling why creating them is so resource-intensive.